The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer, Rhonda Wheeler Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
Book Review: "If you don't know your options, you don't have any."
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether your having a hospital or a homebirth, this book is relevant. Every pregnant woman will face decisions about the care of her body. This book will arm you with facts to evaluate options for yourself. That's the message of this book: you have choices, even if your doctor or midwife does not present them to you. And choosing to trust your caregiver to make decisions for you is valid for some women. But educating yourself can only make your birth better not worse.Book Review: Why is this the only pregnancy book with statistics?
Summary: 5 Stars
I searched for books that would give me objective information using numbers and not opinions. I found most pregnancy books disagree with the statistical data. Do editors think women are too stupid for research? This book was great. The writer states her bias and then gives objective information. I hope there are fifty books like this in the future.Book Review: Very informative...a must during pregnancy
Summary: 5 Stars
The main reason that I bought this book was for expert help with writing a birth plan. This book covered all of the questions that I had regarding my pregnancy and upcoming delivery, and even covered some things that I had not thought about. I wish I were brave enough to go the midwife/home birth route, but since I'm not, I opted for the OB/hospital setting. Now I know what all of my options are or at least what I should ask my doctor about. It's written in easy to understand language. This book also served as a refresher course for me. My first child was born 7 years ago and lots of things have changed since then.Book Review: Not just for women!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book really helped my wife and I make some good choices, and I am sure it is one of the major factors that helped us have a 100% drug-free, natural, perfect birth. I even had it beside me just before my wife went into labor, and used it for some last minute advice. Great stuff.Book Review: An absolute MUST!
Summary: 5 Stars
Every pregnant woman should read this book early in her pregnancy. It is packed full of clear, unbiased information and facts about the common medical interventions that take place during birth, why many of them are undesirable or even dangerous, and how they can be avoided. It is fascinating to see how most of the research proves that medical procedures that American women have come to view as normal are in fact unnecessary. This book covers topics like Cesareans, the use of IVs during birth, pain medications, epidurals, episiotomies, and electronic fetal monitoring. It shows how such common beliefs as "It's better to have a surgical episiotomy cut than a natural tear" are in fact false, and why the medical profession has pushed them so frequently that they have become a "normal" part of giving birth. This book cleared up a lot of questions that I had and made me decide very firmly that I would prefer a long and painful labor to an epidural, which might relieve my pain, but could also cause myself and, even worse, MY BABY, medical problems down the line.